One person was killed and 10 injured on Saturday after a sanitation worker ruptured a gas pipeline just before the turnoff onto New Cairo’s Road 90. The fire burned for nearly two hours before firefighters, police and the military brought it under control.
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Vogue Arabia editor leaves job after two print issues
The editor-in-chief of Vogue Arabia left her post after only two print issues of the magazine, the Associated Press reports. Saudi princess Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz had led the project since its web launch last fall and its March inaugural print edition.
BY THE NUMBERS
EGP / USD CBE market average: Buy 18.0341 | Sell 18.1371 EGP / USD at CIB: Buy 18.05 | Sell 18.15 EGP / USD at NBE: Buy 17.95 | Sell 18.05 EGX30 (Thursday): 12,967 (-0.1%) Turnover: EGP 646 mn (43% below the 90-day average) EGX 30 year-to-date: +5.0% THE MARKET ON THURSDAY: The EGX30 ended […]
20 April (Thursday): Closing date for the Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority bid round number 1 for 2017 for gold and associated minerals. 22-24 April (Wednesday-Friday): Food Africa, Cairo International Convention Center, Cairo. 24-25 April (Monday-Tuesday): Renaissance Capital’s Egypt Investor Conference, Cape Town, South Africa. 25 April (Tuesday): Sinai Liberation Day, national holiday. 25-26 April (Tuesday-Wednesday): […]
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How the NYPD secures Times Square on New Year’s Eve
One of the best pieces of writing we’ve read in a long time is also exceptionally relevant to Egypt this weekend. Mark Warren’s “How the NYPD secures Times Square on New Year’s Eve” for Popular Science is feature writing at its best. You can hear the Brooklyn accents and the rhythm of cop-speak run up […]
Of wine and running
Of wine and running: Whether you enjoy it over a meal or it’s your tipple of choice when, uhm, reveling, novice and intermediate connoisseurs of wine — oenophiles to the cognoscenti — will learn something from the New York Times’ “How to drink wine.” The long feature is divided into multiple sections, covering everything from […]
Bezos’ annual shareholder letter says you need to make decisions with only 70% of the information you’d like to have.
Whether they’re running Fortune 500 companies, three-person startups or established family businesses, execs across the US this morning are debating Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’ annual letter to shareholders. The letter touches on everything from artificial intelligence to why he insists it’s still “Day 1” for Amazon. The opening note to Amazon’s annual report is being […]
Chuck it all and join the French Foreign Legion
Want to chuck it all and join the French Foreign Legion? Get accepted, serve three years with honor and it’s your ticket to French citizenship under the name of your choice. Aeon takes a look at the storied French fighting force, which is repositioning itself not as a group of ‘expendables,’ but as “an elite […]